Street Art documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop produced
by U.K based KEO Films
is being labelled a Banksy film. This doco includes archival footage
from RASH featuring the artwork of Ash Keating,
James Dodd, Michael Porter, Regan Tamanui, Rone, SYNC, TOWER, Vexta.
Congratulations
to all the artists. The film premiered at Sundance
Film Festival on Sunday 24th January and looks set to open in UK
cinemas on 5 March 2010.
Check out the RASH DVD extras
for a seventeen minute interview with Shepard.
7th
February 2009
The Associated Press (AP) dispute copyright of Faireys image.
But was it fair(ey) use? Also Shepard Fairey Arrested In Boston.
FUTURE
SCREENINGS
Space
Invaders
The
National Gallery of Australia Free
screening:Sunday
21 November at 2.00 pm
Exhbition dates: 30 October 2010 –
27 February 2011 | Project Gallery,
NGA, Canberra, Australia
SCREENINGS
- ARCHIVE
Stick
it! Collage in Australian Art
The
Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Free
screening 12.30pmSaturday 29 May 2010
Venue
Theatre, NGV Australia
Federation
Square, Corner of Russell St & Flinders St, Melbourne
Exhbition
starts 19-Mar-2010 & ends
29-Aug-2010.
Open
City - Lublin,
Poland 16
July 2009
Festival of Art in Public Spaces
Screening:
State Library of Victoria's Outside-In Cinema Wed
13 May 2009, 6.30–8pm
Experimedia, 328 Swanston St,
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Bookings
& Info
(Its Free)
RASH
DVD Launch Friday March 31st 2006 at 5pm Check out the ‘Battle of the Vans’
live painting event!
With ‘True Live’ DJ’s in full effect.
Car Park rear of 3PBS radio station.
Corner of Budd and Sackville Sts Collingwood, Melbourne.
RECENT
PRESS / REVIEWS
OVERSPRAY Magazine
Issue 7 Februray 2008
"RASH finds a groove when it's open minded politicians and culturally
aware artists - Vexta, Lister, Psalm etc - voice justifiable rationales
for the type of work they do".
SIDEROOM
Magazine
Article on Melbourne Street Art, HAHA, RASH
New Zealand
May 2007
METRO
Magazine
Issue #151 / January 2007
Rash: Street Art and Social Dialogue Feature Article by Nicholas Hansen
INJEKTION.
Campusmagazin (Hamburg, Germany)
Issue #3, Spring 2007
"RASH gives a voice to those, who wouldn't be heard otherwise
in a de-politisised media environment". Jon Mendrala, Managing Editor
triple
j jmag
SUMMER-07 Issue #6 This excellentdocumentary about the graffiti
art movement
in Melbourne was recorded prior to the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
Reviewed by Megan Spencer
ARTICLES,
REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Megan Spencer and Zan Rowe - review & discuss Rash
Triple J Radio Saturday Morning Show 26-08-06 'Megan
does DVD and Rash...' podcast
(mp3 5.9 MB)
Acclaim
Magazine - Issue June-August 2006 RASH
"It is this rare spotlight on this hidden subculture
that makes Rash so fascinating and potentially illuminating
to those who view graffiti artists as merely vandals." Article
by Saeed Saeed Read
the article posted to In The Mix - see link below
In
The Mix - DVD Review RASH
Worth the effort for any Melburnian…
If you’re from out of town, scratch it and see?
By jeremyl, 04-07-06
EMPIRE
Magazine Melbourne, the new hub for alternative street art,
is the setting for this doco on visual vigilantism. By Chris Murray June 2006
Filmink Magazine Having A Spray Hansen's gorgeous urban photography might have had something
to do with it too. Combined with his unlimited access to the main players
of the street art game (who appear in an array of masks and disguises
to protect their identities) the documentary makes for good viewing.
By Billy Baxter June 2006
The
Age Rash
This fresh documentary explores Melbourne's flourishing graffiti subculture.
By Sacha Molitorisz, 23-04-06
The
Age Stop,
or I'll shoot Operating on the margins is a job description for the new wave
of documentary makers. By Paul Kalina, 20-04-06
The
Bulletin with NewsweekMagazine RASH
"Melbourne has become a world leader in street art. It's this intriguing
scene
Nicholas Hansen dissects in his informative documentary Rash.
By Craig Matheison 18-04-06
Auckland Screening Dates
8th September, 8.55pm at Rialto Newmarket
14th September, 8.20pm at Rialto Newmarket
The festival will be held from 7 September – 29 October 2006
5.00pm
Saturday March 4th 2006 Adelaide Arts Festival
Mercury Cinema, Adelaide
Includes Q&A with the Director and graffiti artists KAB101 and Kano.
AWARD
On the 12th November 2005 RASH was awarded the prize for
Best Australian Documentary
by the Film Critics Circle of Australia
in their 2005 annual awards for Australian Film. FCCA is a member of FIPRESCI the International
Federation of Film Critics Press
Release
AWARD
NOMINATION
18/10/05
RASH has been nominated for the Film Critics Circle of Australia
Awards
(FCCA) in the 'Best Feature Documentary' category.
The Awards are to be held in Melbourne on 12 November 2005. Press
Release
QUOTES
& PRESS
"Against
a pulsating soundtrack by True
Live’s Ryan Ritchie, the graffiti artists’ poetic brilliance
is passionately uncovered by director Nicholas Hansen who exposes the
talent and wealth of key players in Melbourne’s street art scene."
Future Movies reviews the The
London Australian Film Festival 2006
”..it
really opened up many peoples’ eyes as to the thought, planning,
creativity, and vision that underpins a large percentage of street art.” Dr Cameron Cartiere, Birkbeck College London
‘It
was great to see a classy, non-formulaic Aussie documentary film’
Dennis O’Rourke, Documentary Filmmaker
With
the wonderful tagline "Scratch it and it spreads", Rash was
one of the audience favourites at last year's Melbourne International
Film Festival. Deservedly so. Sacha Molitorisz, Rash,
April 23, 2006, The Age TV Guide
It is a smart, instructive, funny, finger-on-the-pulse documentary about
Melbourne's thriving, though much-disdained, street art culture. Paul Kalina, Stop,
or I'll shoot The Age Green Guide, 20-04-06
"Director
Nicholas Hansen assigns his camera to the city’s abandoned corners
and most high-profile spaces, showcasing the poetic brilliance of its
young graffiti artists.." DOCHOUSE, The London Australian Film Festival 2006 Program
Notes
"If
you know Melbourne, you might recognize tags and styles in this literally
awesome film
about the contemporary urban expression born of rebellion..." Independent
Cinema Office 04/06
"Smart,
savvy and to the point." Tom Ryan, film critic The Sunday Age
If
you’ve not been impressed by contemporary graffiti art, Rash just
might convert you. RealTime Arts Magazine, February / March 2006
“Rash
is full of visual delight. Hansen takes his camera down alleyways and
into railway
over-passes to reveal the city’s street art in all its shadowy
nocturnal glory.” Sun
Herald, July 27th 2005, Writer - Richard Moore
“graffiti
and street art has rarely been looked at from the perspective that this
film offers.
Rash is an unashamed celebration of the spirit of rebellion and invention
that animates the work.” Melbourne Film Festival 2005 – Nick Feik, MIFF festival
program guide
"Rash
is an articulate and cheeky local intervention…. Rash makes us
believe in graffiti art,
and an earlier situationist project to “imagine the impossible.” Screenhub Online Film News Australia August 29th 2005, Writer
– Carmela Baranowska
“This
documentary generates a real buzz about a phenomenon which has grown
in Melbourne
in recent years.”
Anna Reeves – Fitzroy Shorts
The
film “offers an intriguing glimpse into a vibrant and occasionally
pretentious subculture”
The Age August 2nd 2005, Writer - Adrian Martin
17/08/05
RASH
voted 2nd most popular Documentary at MIFF 2005
MIFF 2005 Audience poll results
10 Most Popular Documentaries
1. Punk: Attitude Don Letts (UK) 2. Rash Nicholas Hansen (Australia)
3. Shake Hands With The Devil: The Journey Of Romeo Dallaire Peter
Raymont(Canada)
4. Enron:The Smartest Guys In The Room Alex Gibney (USA)
5. Girl In A Mirror Kathy Drayton (Australia)
3/08/05
RASH
screened to a sold out Greater Union Cinema
last night for its final MIFF screening.
22/07/05
The
second and last RASH
screening at MIFF is
Tuesday 02 August 9.00pm Greater
Union Cinema, 131 Russell St Melbourne Bookings
can be made via www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au
22/06/05
SCREENING
DATES ANNOUNCED
RASH
the feature documentary has been invited
to World Premiere at the 54th
Melbourne International Film Festival
Screening Dates:
Thursday 21st July 7.00pm and
Tuesday 2 August 9:00pm,
Greater Union Cinema, 131 Russell St Melbourne
Bookings can be made via www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au
(Stay tuned for the online program) If you would like to be sent news of further screenings
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RASH the documentary film is complete!
With
thanks to all the artists,
crew, musicians and post production people
who helped bring RASH the film to completion!
Also a big shout out to David Hooke for the RASH poster design
